Ever since, Gilmore and other Virginia officials have tried to stop Sam Sloan from publicizing the fact that his mother and daughter were kidnapped by them.

James Gilmore Governor of Virginia and former Attorney General of Virginia

For example, in 1991, they obtained a court order signed by Judge Paul M. Peatross of the Albemarle County Circuit Court prohibiting Sam Sloan from revealing that his mother and daughter have been kidnapped with the assistance of corrupt Virginia officials. This order has not had much effect because Sloan has remained out of Virginia since that time, except when Gilmore has him extradited to there.

Gilmore was Assistant Attorney General of Virginia when he masterminded these kidnappings. Later he because Attorney General and now he is Governor. The Internet did not exist when Gilmore committed these crimes and probably he did not realize the easily his criminal acts could be revealed once the Internet arrived.

The bill, which Gov. James Gilmore has promised to sign, would make Virginia the first state in the nation to have the power to criminally prosecute people accused of spamming.

The measure would have far-reaching implications because about half of the nation's Internet infrastructure is routed through the state.

The American Civil Liberties Union said it expected to challenge the anti-spamming bill on constitutional grounds, but Virginia Attorney General Mark Earley said through a spokesman he would defend the new law. "Spam is a scourge on legitimate Internet commerce,'' Earley spokesman David Botkins said. "This legislation is crucial to the high-tech business community, and Attorney General Earley is prepared to help with its enforcement, where appropriate.''

Dulles, Va.-based America Online, which serves about 16 million of the estimated 50 million U.S. Internet users, has filed about 40 civil lawsuits under existing Virginia laws, associate general counsel Randall Boe said. But existing laws only allow the company to seek compensation for actual, not potentially higher punitive, damages.

"We have only been able to recover the cost of sending the e-mail,'' which is a very small amount, he said.

The anti-spamming law was backed by the governor's Commission on Information Technology, which in December presented recommendations for the nation's first comprehensive Internet policy.

The law makes illegal spamming a misdemeanor punishable by fines of up to $500. "Malicious'' spamming, defined as causing more than $2,500 in losses for the victim, could be prosecuted as a felony.

Under the new law, America Online and other Internet service providers could sue the sender for damages of $10 a message or $25,000 a day, whichever is greater. A spammed Internet subscriber could seek similar damage amounts.

ACLU of Virginia's executive director, Kent Willis, said there was little evidence that spamming was enough of a problem to justify constraints on free speech on the Internet.

"Expression is protected in the commercial context as well as the noncommercial context, and no one has yet to come up with a valid or compelling state interest in limiting the way e-mail is sent,'' he said.

• Who is James Gilmore?
• Follow-up Complaint to Virginia Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission
• Freeze on Bank Accounts of Dr. Marjorie Sloan
• Why Officials of the "Commonwealth of Virginia" can robb, steal, kidnap and kill with impunity, and often do so
• Order prepared by Judge Gamble waiving his own disqualification
• Order of Judge Lawrence Janow dated August 25, 1986 which "allowed" Charles and Shelby Roberts to enroll Shamema Honzagool Sloan in the Temple Baptist School
• Order of Judge Lawrence Janow September 4, 1986 which "awarded" custody of Shamema Honzagool Sloan to the Amherst County Department of Social Services
• Testimony of Vithanage Santhilatha ("Renuka") before Judge Lawrence Janow
• Order of Judge Michael Gamble awarding custody of Shamema to Charles and Shelby Roberts, one year after they had kidnapped her.
• Complaint to Virginia Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission
• Letter to the Virginia State Legislature
• Followup Letter to the Virginia State Legislature
• Virginia legistators rebuke Sloan letter
• Virginia about to execute Paraguayan, in violation of international law
• Amnesty International - Report - AMR 51/14/98 - Angel Francisco Breard: Facing Death in a Foreign Land
• Suit by Paraguay vs. United States in the International Court of Justice
• Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harry L. Carrico - Defender of the White Race
• Cases of Wrongfully Incarcerated Prisoners in Virginia
• The Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which gives each individual state immunity from suit by citizens
• Justice Department investigates deaths in Virginia's mental hospitals
• Serial Killers Still at Large in Virginia
• Wanted for Kidnapping